Nigel Power

[Photograph] Nigel Power Nigel was called to the Bar in 1992 and has practised from these chambers ever since. His interested include cricket and football (playing, coaching and supporting Liverpool FC). His practice is exclusively in crime and he has been involved in cases of murder, manslaughter, serious drug trafficking, money laundering and complex fraud.

Notable cases include:

R v Allen
Represented the lead defendant in a large-scale drugs operation (Operation Dedans).

R v Ashton
Represented the defendant (led) charged with the murder of Leon Small who was shot dead and then burnt on Oglet Shore near to Liverpool Airport.

R v Barwise
Represented the defendant (led) charged with membership of the Ulster Volunteer Force and possession of articles (firearms) for a terrorist purpose.

R v Bragg
Represented the defendant charged as one of ten defendants involved in the Millennium Dome Fraud, defrauding the Department of Media and Culture in relation to lighting contracts (successful application to dismiss).

R v Crosby
Prosecuted this defendant (led) who was convicted of the drugs-motivated murder of Sandra Wilson, a Sister at Alder Hey Hospital.

R v Cullen
Represented this defendant (as leading junior) in a large-scale drugs operation (Operation Montrose) when he pleaded guilty to an alternative offence of money laundering.

R v Fitzsimmons
Represented the lead defendant (as leading junior) in Operation Abraid a 5-year money laundering conspiracy (who was allowed ultimately to plead guilty to mortgage fraud).

R v Harrison
Represented the lead defendant in a substantial money laundering conspiracy.

R v Hudson
Represented the lead defendant (led) in a large-scale drugs operation (Operation Alert).

R v Johnson
Represented this defendant in a large-scale cigarette smuggling operation (Operation Emitted).

R v Kane
Represented this defendant in a large-scale drugs operation (Operation Lima).

R v Kilshaw
Prosecuted this defendant (led) who made a demonstrably false confession to the murder of a prostitute in the Crown Street area of Liverpool (no evidence offered against him).

R v Kristensen
Represented the lead defendant (led) charged with the murder of a homosexual man at Otterspool Promenade, Liverpool more than 5 years after the event.

R v McLeary
Represented the lead defendant (led) in a Court Martial where he was charged with the manslaughter of an Iraqi looter in the aftermath of the second Iraq War.

R v Mahmut
Represented the lead defendant (led) in a large-scale drugs operation (Operation Black).

R v Minshull, Scarlett and Mollart
Prosecuted (as leading junior) the largest case of cannabis importation into Merseyside.

R v Molloy
Represented this defendant (led) acquitted of conspiracy to commit 17 armed robberies of Post Offices country-wide, which involved the Forensic Science Services’ largest ever investigation.

R v Morris
Represented this defendant (led) in 4-month trial involving a large-scale drugs operation (Operation Babraham).

R v Reeve
Represented this defendant (as leading junior) as one of ten defendants in a large-scale advance fee fraud.

R v Richardson
Represented this defendant (as a leading junior) acquitted of the conspiracy to murder David Regan (a so-called gangland execution transferred from Liverpool to Manchester Crown Court for publicity reasons).

R v Smeda
Represented the defendant (led) who was acquitted of the murder by shooting of Liam Kelly.

R v Frank Smith
Represented the lead defendant (led) in a large-scale drugs operation (Operation McArthur).

R v Paul Taylor
Represented the lead defendant (led) who pleaded guilty to the murder of Anthony Walker, a young black student killed with an ice axe in Huyton.

R v Uddin
Prosecuted this defendant (led) who admitted the manslaughter of a teenage boy at the back of an Indian Takeaway Restaurant in St Helens.

R v Welsh
Represented this defendant in a large-scale drugs operation (Operation Ruin).

R v Williams
Represented this defendant who was acquitted of the kidnap and false imprisonment of Curtis Escoffery despite the controlled payment of a £20,000 ransom by the police.

For additional information, please contact Nigel Power at nigel@power.uk.com